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Excessively long log-on time

Author
18 Mar 2005 1:55 PM
Steve P.
I have a mix of Win 98, Win 2K, and Win XP clients logging on to a single Win
2K Server. On every single Win 2K client, there is an excessive log-on time.
Sometimes the log-on can take up to a half an hour. All have the latest
service packs installed. I have searched the knowledge base with no success.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Author
18 Mar 2005 4:35 PM
Danny Sanders
Usually this is a sign of mis- configured DNS. What DNS server do they point
to?



DDS W 2k MVP MCSE

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>I have a mix of Win 98, Win 2K, and Win XP clients logging on to a single
>Win
> 2K Server. On every single Win 2K client, there is an excessive log-on
> time.
> Sometimes the log-on can take up to a half an hour. All have the latest
> service packs installed. I have searched the knowledge base with no
> success.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
Author
19 Mar 2005 5:55 PM
Tony Marziano
I had a similar behaviour with an XP machine on a Windows 2000 Domain.
Basically the Domain name displayed the full dns rather than the NetBIOS
Domain name so I removed the '.com' and rebooted the machine. It took a few
seconds to log in.

Rightclick My Computer - Properties - Computer Name - Change - in the
'Member of' check if it displayed the Full DNS entry of the domain. If so,
remove the domain extension.

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"Steve P." wrote:

> I have a mix of Win 98, Win 2K, and Win XP clients logging on to a single Win
> 2K Server. On every single Win 2K client, there is an excessive log-on time.
> Sometimes the log-on can take up to a half an hour. All have the latest
> service packs installed. I have searched the knowledge base with no success.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
Author
23 Mar 2005 2:05 PM
Steve P.
Tony,

Thanks for the tip. It actually cleared up the problem on my XP machines,
but I still have the problem on the 2K machines. Any further insight would be
greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
Steve

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"Tony Marziano" wrote:

> I had a similar behaviour with an XP machine on a Windows 2000 Domain.
> Basically the Domain name displayed the full dns rather than the NetBIOS
> Domain name so I removed the '.com' and rebooted the machine. It took a few
> seconds to log in.
>
> Rightclick My Computer - Properties - Computer Name - Change - in the
> 'Member of' check if it displayed the Full DNS entry of the domain. If so,
> remove the domain extension.
>
> "Steve P." wrote:
>
> > I have a mix of Win 98, Win 2K, and Win XP clients logging on to a single Win
> > 2K Server. On every single Win 2K client, there is an excessive log-on time.
> > Sometimes the log-on can take up to a half an hour. All have the latest
> > service packs installed. I have searched the knowledge base with no success.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.